The second 660MW block of the Shanghai-Thar Coal Power Plant wassuccessfully connected to the national grid on Sunday.
The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz’s (PML-N) media wing announced this via atweet on the same day.
The £2.6 billion ($3.2 billion) integrated project is intended to be partof China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as part of the China-PakistanEconomic Corridor (CPEC).
The project’s principal investor is Shanghai Electric Group, a Chineseelectricity production, and electrical components production firm.
Shanghai Electric reported the financial closing of the integratedproject’s coal mining component in February 2020, with the first unitconnected to the national grid at the start of December this year.
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The 1.3GW coal-fired power station is intended to deliver inexpensive anddependable electricity for nearly four million Pakistani homes when fullyoperational.
Thar Block-1 is located in the southern section of the Thar coalfieldregion in the Thar Desert in Pakistan’s Sindh province, roughly 380kilometers east of Karachi.
The integrated project’s 1.3GW coal-fired power station is located roughly5 kilometers from the pithead of the Thar Block-1 coal mine.
